What does that mean for us? Think Carcosa. Think Vornheim. Think Lamentations of the Flame Princess. Think of any self-publisher writing a module or zine that features an adventure involving, say, an orc raping a captive. Or a witch and warlock who happen to be brother and sister and have to participate in a summoning ritual by getting it on. Okay, gross example, but . . . essentially any fictional (that's MADE UP) written account of such things is at risk of not being processed for payment. That, my friend, is censorship of the marketplace.

They specify "ebook" in the above quotation, but what makes anytone think Paypal will stop there? If Paypal can identify which ebooks contain such material, then surely the company can extend such a refusal to process to other material and products that some Paypal desk jockey deems unacceptable or immoral.

I don't know about you, but I don't want a payment processor dictating what I can and cannot pay for with my money. Paypal, unfortunately, has a near monopoly on online micro-payments, and so this truly affects all of us in the OSR. So unless we decide to switch back to the pre-21st century system of "send me a check and I'll send you the product" this is a bit of a problem (and honestly, who wants to go back to that method besides postal service employees?)

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